Food compound.



EINITED STATEg PATENT JOHN H. BLOCK, 0F LEWELLEN, NEBRASKA.

FOOD COMPOUND.

No Drawing.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, J OHN H. BLOCK, citizen of the United States,residing at Lewellen, in the county of Deuel and State of Nebraska, haveinvented certain new and useful Improvements in Food Compound, of whichthe following is a specification.

It is well known to those skilled in the art of stock raising, thatseparated milk, that is milk from which the butter fat has beenextracted is essentially lacking in providing proper nourishment forfeeding animals, such as calves, pigs, etc., although the animal heat ofthe separated milk is a factor which is obviously essential.

With this fact in mind, my present invention has for its primary objectto replace by an artificially prepared composition of ingredients, theessentials that are incidental to the extracted butter fats, whereby thecalves for instance, will be properly nourished until they are capableof grazing, while at the same time important economies are effected, asthe butter tat may be extracted from the milk and the separated milkstill used, with other ingredients hereinafter named, with the samebeneficial result; as would be efi'ected by the unskimmed mil Incarrying out my invention in the preferred manner, I use the followingingredients mixed in about the proportions stated.

Oil of benne Water 3O Sugar 14 Albumen 4; Sodium phosphate 2 Calciumphosphate 2% Tragacanth 1% Preferably, in preparing the composition, Imix the tragacanth with the oil, then in a separate vessel dissolve thesugar in the Specification of Letters Patent.

Application filed June 7, 1909.

Patented Mar. 28, 1911, Serial No. 500,538.

water. The two liquid mixtures, namely the oil and tragacanth and thesugar and water are then commingled and are allowed to come to a boil,and finally while they are cooling, the calcium phosphate, sodiumphosphate and albumen are added. This mixture is then combined with theseparated milk to produce the food.

It is to be understood that I do not claim to be the first to produce afood for calves, as a substitute for the mothers milk; but I do claimthat I have produced a food for young animals, such as calves, by theuse of which separated milk may be used with the same beneficialresults, as ordinarily produced by unskimmed milk, whereby, the calveswill be nourished to the best possible advantage, and the butter fatused for other purposes. The invention thereby enabling a calf to beraised at a much smaller expense than it would, if it were allowed tofeed entirely on the milk of the cow.

In the preferred proportion of the parts, I use about one ounce of themixture to one gallon of the separated milk.

Having thus described the invention, what is claimed as new is:

The herein described mixture designed to be added to separated milk toreplace the food contents lost by the removal of the cream and for useas a food for calves and other young animals, comprising the followingingredients in about the proportions hereinbefore stated, namely, oil ofbenne, sugar, albumen, sodium phosphate, calcium phosphate andtragacanth.

In testimony whereof I aifix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

JOHN H. BLOCK. [1 s] Witnesses:

GERTRUDE WEHN, I). K. SPACHT.

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